Hai
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hai is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vietnamese numeral ‘two’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings.
- VNVietnam1 in 112◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 574
- KRSouth Korea1 in 2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 232 ●
- 1 in 1.4K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Haji in IN India, MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan and 6 more, Hacı in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, SY Syria and 2 more, Хаджи in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and 혜지 in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Vietnamese numeral ‘two’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #69 | 940,663 | 950K rec. | — | — | Hacı | 73 |
| VN Vietnam | #15 | 759,329 | 402K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 232 |
| IN India | — | 74,733 | 41K rec. | — | 4.4K | Haji | 74 |
| KR South Korea | #402 | 31,559 | 15K rec. | — | — | 혜지 | 65 |
| MY Malaysia | #911 | 13,716 | 14K rec. | — | — | Haji | 45 |
| AU Australia | #968 | 9,871 | 10K rec. | — | 4 | Hai | 120 |
| US United States | — | 9,174 | 131K rec. | 1 in 36K | 13K | Hai | 219 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,314 | 8.3K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 92 |
| DE Germany | — | 8,064 | 9.1K rec. | — | 2 | Hai | 116 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 7,350 | 5K rec. | — | listed | Haji | 59 |
| CN China | — | 6,376 | 2K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 107 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,136 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 5.1K | Hacı | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese581K73%
- English91K11%
- 25K3%
- Chinese24K3%
- Spanish9.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 580,580 | 73% |
| English | 91,267 | 11% |
| 24,580 | 3% | |
| Chinese | 24,065 | 3% |
| Spanish | 9,672 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hai is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, second; second-born child
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In Vietnamese, number two
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In German, Fremdname; nicht einbezogen in die Hüter-Namen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Alive.
as a nameThe African book of names
In cdo, your chin gapes and drops, as said to a mendacious person
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 22 |
| 1980 | 26 |
| 1981 | 28 |
| 1982 | 29 |
| 1983 | 44 |
| 1984 | 31 |
| 1985 | 39 |
| 1986 | 30 |
| 1987 | 24 |
| 1988 | 17 |
| 1989 | 21 |
| 1990 | 27 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 19 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1997 | 13 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2015 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1975–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Qian Haiyueb. 1901CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Xian Xinghaib. 1905CNnot in their usual nameChinese composer (1905–1945)
- Wang Haib. 1926CNChinese air force general (1926-2020)
- Fan Haifub. 1933CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist
- Haidi Zhangb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer, politician with physical disability
- Lương Mạnh Hảib. 1981VNactor
- Nguyễn Hải Phongb. 1982VNVietnamese songwriter, singer, composer and record producer (born 1982)
- Quế Ngọc Hảib. 1993VNfootballer
- Lee Hib. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Nguyễn Quang Hảib. 1997VNVietnamese footballer (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 243 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hai?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Hai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hai have the most bearers?
- Hai is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled hacı.
- How common is Hai compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hai is the 69th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Hai a male or female name?
- Hai is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hai mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vietnamese numeral ‘two’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hai” — the 69th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.